food styling

7 Ways to Tell if Your Food Photos Are Trendy

April 6, 2014 By Nancy Baggett 8 Comments

Nasturtium-Chive Vinegar In every age, artists and their work inevitably reflect what's deemed fashionable at the time. Savvy Byzantine painters elongated ...

Getting to Yes on Foodgawker and Tastespotting (My Six-Month Journey, Plus Tips)

July 26, 2012 By Nancy Baggett 72 Comments

If you’ve heard that getting your photos on Foodgawker or Tastespotting is guaranteed to boost your food blog traffic, it’s true. Depending on the image and ...

Welcome to KitchenLane! It’s a comfortable place where I create, thoroughly test, and photograph recipes for my cookbooks and blog. All my recipes are original, not adaptations from others. I trained as a pastry chef, so many offerings are desserts and baked goods. Some are also healthful, savory dishes I contribute to healthy eating publications. My recipes are always free of artificial dyes, flavorings, and other iffy additives, which I won’t serve my family—or you! Instead, dishes feature naturally flavorful, colorful ingredients including fresh herbs, berries, edible flowers, and fruits, many from my own suburban garden or local farmers’ markets. Since lots of readers aspire to write cookbooks, I also blog on recipe writing and editing and other helpful publishing how-to info accumulated while authoring nearly 20 well-received cookbooks over many years.